HC Deb 25 February 2002 vol 380 cc1044-5W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the main items of income and expenditure of the general budgets of the European Community for each year from 1995 to the latest available year in the manner of the answer of 11 February 1997,Official Report, columns 119–22W. [35875]

Ruth Kelly

The information from 1995 to 2000, based on currently available EU documents and at 2000 prices, is set out in the following tables.

Table 1: European Community Budget—Expenditure
Million euro1
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
FIFG 272 451 512 420 580 —
Percentage of total general budget 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.7 —
Cohesion Fund 1,865 2,005 2,441 2,407 2,773 1,685
Percentage of total general budget 2.6 2.4 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.0
Research 2,720 3,082 3,133 3,058 2,669 3,404
Percentage of total general budget 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.1 4.1
Administration 4,248 4,295 4,409 4,297 4,173 4,643
Percentage of total general budget 5.8 5.2 5.3 5.2 4.9 5.6
Other 9,121 9,126 8,579 9,296 9,087 7,187
Percentage of total general budget 12.5 11.1 10.2 11.2 10.7 8.6
Total 73,040 82,486 83,876 83,323 84,744 83,331

Table 2: European Community Budget—Revenue
Million euro1
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Agricultural levies 2,134 1,950 2,023 2,014 2,184 —
Percentage of total revenue 2.6 2.2 2.4 2.3 2.5 —
Customs duties 13,729 12,595 12,870 12,523 11,881 —
Percentage of total revenue 16.7 14.5 15.2 14.4 13.5 —
VAT 43,006 36,367 35,962 34,119 31,631 35,122
Percentage of total revenue 52.2 41.8 42.5 39.2 35.9 37.9
GNP 15,576 25,216 28,265 36,079 38,072 37,580
Percentage of total revenue 18.9 29.0 33.4 41.4 43.2 40.5
Misc. 7,957 10,900 5,522 2,349 4,438 4,755
Percentage of total revenue 9.7 12.5 6.5 2.7 5.0 5.1
Traditional Own Resources — — — — — 15,267
Percentage of total revenue — — — — — 16.5
Total 82,402 87,029 84,642 87,085 88,207 92,725
1 Figures are in millions of euro at constant 2000 prices

Notes:

  1. 1. Figures are for outturn. As yet outturn figures are not available for 2001.
  2. 2. Figures converted to constant 2000 prices using EU15 deflator throughout.
  3. 3. Items are denominated in euro as that is the unit of account for the EC Budget.
  4. 4. Other spending includes spending on external policies and internal policies other than research.

Sources:

  1. 1. The Community Budget: The facts in figures, 2000 Edition; European Commission.
  2. 2. European Court of Auditors Report on the 2000 Budget (Official Journal C359, 15 December 2001).
  3. 3. Allocation of 2000 EU operating expenditure; European Commission (September 2001).
  4. 4. European Economy, Number 72, 2001 (Table 24, page 161); European Commission.